Diamond Yao joins Teen and Diana to discuss her article "Navigating Capitalist Mandates for Happiness and Collectivist Fears of Shame." What do "failure" and "success" mean in a culture of excess consumerism that dehumanizes and commodifies us? How do we get out of the white hand-me-down world?

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Diamond (@graceofyul)

Teen (@Mont_Jiang)

Diana (@discoveryduck)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

"Navigating Capitalist Mandates for Happiness and Collectivist Fears of Shame" https://planamag.com/navigating-capitalist-mandates-for-happiness-and-collectivist-fears-of-shame/

The Black Bourgeoisie, E. Franklin Frazier

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Bourgeoisie/Franklin-Frazier/9780684832418

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